Tanbur
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The term Tanbur can refer to various long-necked string instruments originating in Mesopotamia, Southern or Central Asia. According to the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, "terminology pre
Musician and luthier Ghobad Ghobadi (تنبورقبادی), a face of Yarsanism, plays a Kurdish tanbur. Ghobadi makes tanburs in the Yarsan tradition.
Kurdish Tembur
left to right: Turkish tambur, Greek Baglamas, tambouras
North Indian Tanpura (left) used as a drone to accompany a sarod recital
Bağlama
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The bağlama or saz is a long-necked fretted lute used in the folk music of Turkey, Azerbaijan, Armenia and neighbouring regions of the Balkans, Middle East and Central Asia. It belongs to the wider fa
Tanbur
…the Tambura, Tamburica, and the Ukrainian bandura. The Greek tambouras is a long-neck fretted instrument of the lute family, similar to the Turkish saz and the Persian tanbur. Furthermore, the fretted Tanbur influenced the design of many instruments other than those above, notably…
Different sizes of bağlama: Cura (left, smallest) and Çöğür bağlaması/Tambura Bağlaması (right, middle sized)
Asik Veysel was a bağlama virtuoso, and the prominent representative of the Anatolian ashik tradition in the 20th century.
Erdinç Ecevit Yıldız from the band Altın Gün performs with an electric bağlama.